August 25, 2016

Library Spotlight: Welcome Anita Slack

Please join Ashland University Library in welcoming Anita Slack to the AU Community. Anita is a reference and instruction librarian and will be the library liaison for Art, Communication Studies, English, Foreign Languages, Journalism and Digital Media, and Theatre.

Anita comes to us from Ursuline College, where she served as a Reference & Instruction librarian for three years. In addition to her Masters of Library and Information Science, she also possesses a Bachelor and Master of Arts in English with a concentration in literature and writing. Prior to Ursuline, Anita was an Information Services Librarian at Vincennes University.

Anita is active in the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) serving as an executive board member, communications editor, and the communications committee co-chair. She is a regular reviewer for Reference & User Services Quarterly. Her professional interests include information literacy instruction, information seeking behaviors, educational theory, and assessment of student learning. In her spare time, Anita is a voracious reader, sporadic writer, dabbler in music, and watcher of movies.

Anita’s office is located on the main floor of AU Library, stop in and say hello! Contact her via phone at 419-289-5427 (ext 5427 on campus) or email at aslack3@ashland.edu.